Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-12-18

he resumed, there is one thing I believe
in. My wife has committed q breach Of
confidence believe Agnes will marry
you. Good night, Henry. We leave Ven,
ice the first thing tomorrow morning"
So Lord Montbarry disposed of the mys.
terry of The Haunted Hotel"
POSTSCRIPT.
A last means of deciding the difference
of opinion between the two brothers was
still in Henry's possession. He had his
own idea Of the use to which he might put
the false teeth, as q means of inquiry,
when his fellow travellers returned to Eng
land.
The only surviving depository of the do,
nestle history of the family, in past years,
was Agnes LockwoOd's old nurse. Henry
took his first opportunity of trying to re.
vive her personal recollections of the de,
ceased Lord Montbarry. But the nurse
had never forgiven the great man of the
family for his 6esertion Of Agnes; she fatty
refused to consult her memory. even
the bare sight of my lord, when / last
saw him i'll LondOu," said the old woman,
made my finger pals itch to set their
mark on his face. / was sent on an errand
by Miss Agnes, and / met him coming out
Of the dentists doer-and, thank God,
that's the last l Jaw of him."
Thanks to the nurses quick temper and
quaint way Of expressiug herself, the object
of Henry's inquiries was gained already,
He yentured on asking if she had noticed
the situation of the house. She had noticed,
and still remembered the situatiun-"did
Master Henry suppose she had lost the use
of her senses, because she had happened to
be nigh on 80 years old?" The same day
ne took the false teeth to the dentist, and
set all further doubt (if doubt had still
been ~poSsible), at rest forever. The teeth
had been made for the first Lord Mont
barry.
Henry had never revealed the existence
of this last link in the chain of discovery
to an living creature, his brother Stephen
included. He carried his terrible secret
with him to the grave.
There was other event in the memorable
past on which he preserved the same com,
passionate silence. Little Mrs. Ferrari
u6NCI huC" IltJ uCI hioDdAu udu DCCu-
not, as she supposed, the countess victim
but the countess accomplice. She still
believedEthat the late Lord Montbarry had
sent her the 81, 600 note, and still ~recoiled
from making use of present, which she
persisted in declaring had ''the stain other
husbands blood on it,"
Agnes, with the widows entire approval,
took the money to the Children's hospital
and spent it in adding to the number Of
the beds.
In the spring of the new year the mar.
riage took place. At the special request
of Agnes, the members of the family were
the only persons present at the cermcny
thHthree children acted as bridesmaids
Th6re was no Wedding breakfast-and the
honeymoon was spent in the retirement OF
q cottage on the banks of the Thames,
During the last FEW days of the residence
of the newly married couple by the river
side, Lady Montbsrrv's children were in
vited to enjoy a days play in the garden,
The eldest girl overheard and reported tC
her mother a little conjugal dialogue
which touched on the subject Of tht
Haunted Hotel.
Henry, l want you to give me a kiss
There it is, my dear"
'Now / am your wife, may l speak tc
you about somethiDg?"
"What is it?"
Something that happened the day be-
fore that we left Venice. YOu saw the
countess during the last six hours of heI
life. Won't you tell me whether she made
any confession TO You.
"No conscious confession, Agnes-and
therefore no confession that / need distress
you by repeating"
did she say nothing about what she
saw or heard on that dreadful night in my
roOm?"
Nothing We only knew by the event
that her mind never recovered the terror o.
it."
Agnes was not quite satisfied. The sub
ject troubled her.
Even her own brief intercourse with hel
miserable rival of other days suggested
questions that perplexed her. She remem
bered the countess prediction. "Yor
have to bring me to the day of discovery
and to the punishment that is my doom
Cldu the pEeulCIlOu Simply ldlieu ike OlUel
mortal pophecies? Or had it been fulfilled.
on the memorable night when che had seer
the apparition, and when she had in
noceu;ly tempted the countess to watch
her in her room?
Let il, however, be recorded among the
other virtues of Mrs. Henry Westwick,
that she never again attempted to persuade
her husband into betraying his secrets
Other mems wives, hearing of this extrsor.
binary conduct land being trained in the
modern school of morals and manners,
naturally regarded her with compassionate
contempt They always spoke Of Agnes,
from that time forth, as rather an old
fashioned person.
IL that all?
That is all.
Is there no explanation of the mystery
of the Haunted Hotel?
Ask yourself if there is any explanation
of the mystery Of your own life and death.
Farewell.
THE END.